Re: [dylan] The Future of Dylan: What do we use it for?

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On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Scott McKay <[email protected]> wrote:

> FWIW, even inside of Google, C++ is not directly wrapped. You write C
> wrappers first, then export those wrappers for FFI use by, eg, Lisp or
> Python. "Nobody" supports FFI over C++.
>

Understandably ... once you get into templates, most hope is lost of doing
a good / clean binding without also having a C++ compiler in the mix. :)

I've seen some attempts at doing binding systems for C++, but they tended
to ignore the hard parts.

 - Bruce

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